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Breathing fire : female inmate firefighters on the front lines of California's wildfires / Jaime Lowe.

by Lowe, Jaime, 1976-

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MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

363.370922 L913b

Women fire fighters -- California.

Women prisoners -- California.

Wildfires -- California.

9780374116187 (hc)

x, 302 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"California’s fire season gets hotter, longer, and more extreme every year -- fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California’s blazes every year, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. In Breathing Fire, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains, family and friends, correctional officers, and camp commanders. The result is a look at how the fire camps actually operate -- a story that encompasses California’s underlying catastrophes of climate change, economic disparity, and historical injustice, but also draws on deeply personal histories, relationships, desires, frustrations, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting."--Publisher.

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